PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Born, Richard T.
TI  - Stop Fooling Yourself! (Diagnosing and Treating Confirmation Bias)
AID  - 10.1523/ENEURO.0415-24.2024
DP  - 2024 Oct 01
TA  - eneuro
PG  - ENEURO.0415-24.2024
VI  - 11
IP  - 10
4099  - http://www.eneuro.org/content/11/10/ENEURO.0415-24.2024.short
4100  - http://www.eneuro.org/content/11/10/ENEURO.0415-24.2024.full
SO  - eNeuro2024 Oct 01; 11
AB  - Confirmation bias (CB) is a cognitive bias that allows us to fool ourselves by selectively filtering data and distorting analyses to support favored beliefs or hypotheses. In this article, I will briefly review some classic experiments from cognitive psychology that illustrate what a powerful, pernicious, and insidious force CB is. I will then discuss how to recognize CB in our own thinking and behavior and describe specific elements of good experimental design that can mitigate its effects. These elements—such as randomization and blinding—are conceptually straightforward but often difficult in practice and therefore not as widely implemented as they should be.